Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-3801
www.wmich.edu/medieval/
The Societas Magica will be sponsoring four sessions at the International
Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11 2003.
Sessions and speakers are as follows:
Magic, Dreams and Visions
Session 188, Friday, 9 May 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Valley II LeFevre Lounge
Dream Manipulation in the Later Middle Ages: Surveying the Manuscript
Evidence
Frank Klaassen, University
of Saskatchewan
Asking for Dreams: Cultivating and Interpreting Dreams in Late Antiquity
and the Early Middle Ages
Michael D. Swartz,
The Ohio State University
The Cognitive Revolution and Historical Understanding of Dreams and
Visions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Popular Magic
Edward Bever, SUNY College
at Old Westbury
Magic and the Manipulation of Spirits: Angels, Demons and their
Kin
Session 392, Saturday, 10 May, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; Bernhard 105
Angels as Friends: The Holy Almandal in the Solomonic Tradition
Jan Veenstra, University
of Groningen
Glossolalia or Glossopoeia? Divine, Demonic, and Other Invented Languages
Sarah Higley, University
of Rochester
Respondent: Robert Mathiesen, Brown University
Business Meeting follows Session 392 on Saturday at 12:00 noon, Bernhard 105
Magic and Politics
Session 614, Sunday, 11 May10:30 a.m.-12 noon; Bernhard 105
Eleanor Cobham and Continuities in Political Astrology
John Leland, Salem
International University
Witchcraft and the Symbolics of Hierarchy in late 17th Century Finland
Raisa Maria Toivo,
University of Tampere, Finland